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RUNNING GEAR.

APPLIGATION FILED APB.16. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented January 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

LUCIUS T. GIBBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VEHICLE EQUIP- MENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

RUNNING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 749,287, dated January 12, 1904.

Application filed April 16, 1903.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it, known that I, LUoIUs T. GIBBS, a citi zen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Runhing-Gears, of which the following is a speci- I f axles, mounted in suitable boxes, are free to move vertically in their respective pedestals independently of each other. This arrangement has proven satisfactory in practice; but the present devices possess the same and other advantages, which latter will be more particularly specified in connection with the description of the drawings.

The invention consists of the novel combinations and features hereinafter described, and set forth in the claim.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 shows my invention in side elevation. Fig.2 is a section of the same on line II II.

The body of the Vehicle is indicated by 1, carrying on each side a pedestal 2. The pedestals are constructed in any convenient and suitable manner, so as to have two guides or rails 3 4, and are firmly secured to the body or floor of the vehicle. Fastened to the pedestal or the vehicle itself on each side is a spring of spiral form or the leaf type 5 shown or The springs carry an axle 6, on which is rotatably mounted a roller 7 between the guides or rails 3 4, slightly smallerin diameter than the distance between the same.

I The operation of the devices will be readily As the Serial No. 152,937. (No model.)

structions on the road the axles will rise and fall in the pedestals. The rollers 7 being slightly smaller than the openings in which they play will roll on one or the other of the guides with the vertical movement of the axle and springs. The result is that the friction between the pedestal guides and the moving parts is a rolling friction instead of rubbing or grinding. Less lubrication is therefore required, and the wear on the guides and axlebox is greatly reduced and the whole for that reason rendered more durable.

It should be understood, of course, that my invention is applicable both to ordinary vehicles and to automobiles-in fact, to vehicles of any description. In use with automobiles the axle, front or rear, or both, may be provided with motor-arms 8 for carrying a motor 01' other devices.

The specific construction shown is of course typical merely of my invention and represents only one of the many embodiments of which the same is capable. For example, a single guide may be used instead of the two shown between a pair of separated rollers, one or the LUCIUS T. GIBBS.

Witnesses:

M. LAWSON DYER, S. S. DUNHAM. 

